"Hey!" Nate said, hugging Elias back and patting him manfully on the back. "Awesome," he said as he walked into the room, and plopping down on a bed and picking up the box full of cookies and popping one into his mouth. "Hey, these are good," he said through a cookie filled mouth, as he watched Liel head into his bathroom.
"I've been good. Dafne and I went out. It was good, I didn't screw up anything in a way that made her never want to see me again, so it was clearly a good date," he grinned.